Browsing around Hackage, I notice that a seemingly random subset of packages are available for something called "arch linux". Presumably some sort of automatic conversion system is involved, but does anyone know why only certain packages appear? I've noticed that both Debian and OpenSUSE have a very tiny selection of binary Haskell packages too. I'm guessing that these packages are also auto-generated, but presumably selected by hand. (I also don't recall seeing them listed on Hackage.) Anybody know about that? In general, is there an advantage to having native packages for Haskell things? I guess it means you can have binary packages, so you don't need to build from source. And for executables, it means the native package manager can track all the dependencies and install them all for you, potentially without needing a Haskell build environment at all. Is that it, or have I missed something?